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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Esk enters the vehicle, what does she find Simon doing?

2. What does Cutangle transform into upon interacting with Granny?

3. When Esk runs away from the caravan, what does she want to prove to the group and to everyone?

4. What does Granny tell Esk is a good, honest profession for women, particularly in rural areas?

5. What inhabits the Dungeon Dimension that encircles the universe of time and space?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is in charge of the laundry operations and where does this person live?

2. How is the wizard apprentice process different in Esk and Simon's time from previously?

3. Why does Esk get angry with Simon and Master Treatle?

4. Why does Granny tell Esk not to draw attention to herself through magic?

5. What happens to students who fail to become wizards?

6. What happens in the library involving Simon?

7. How does Granny enter the University and what does she find?

8. What does Esk say that Cutangle finds fascinating and unprecedented but against the lore?

9. What happens to Granny when she travels to find Esk?

10. Who is traveling with Master Treatle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief portrait study of Granny. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her through her life? How does she change from the beginning of the book to the middle to the end?

Essay Topic 2

What is Borrowing? When Esk does this for the first time, how does she change? What does she struggle with? What does she give up? How does she come back into her own body? Describe.

Essay Topic 3

When Esk goes to the university, she is not immediately accepted because wizards are male. She faces institutionalized discrimination. What is institutionalized discrimination? How is it portrayed in "Equal Rites"? How does the author Terry Pratchett lampoon the institution of higher learning? Describe.

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